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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Alſo Petus Cerialis comming with a legion of footemen and a troupe of horſemen to theyr ſuccours,Petus Cerialis his men being ſlaine retur|ned. was encountred by the Pictes, and be|ing put to flight, loſte all his footemen, hardly eſcaping himſelfe with the horſemen to the cãpe. Shortly after he tooke vp his tentes and returned towardes Kent,Catus the pro|curatour of Brytaine, fled into Fraunce. where Catus the procuratour or receyuer as I may call him of Brytaine as then ſoiourned, who vnderſtanding howe the whole Iſle was on eache ſide in an vprore, fled ouer into Fraunce then called Gallia.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 This meane while Queene Voada ſent vnto hyr brother Corbreide king of Scotland,Queene Voada deſireth ayde of hyr brother Corbreide. requi|ring his ayde againſt the Romains, who had ſo vilely vſed hyr and hyr doughters, to the greate diſhonour of hyr and all hyr linage, and nowe was the time to be reuenged of ſuch iniuries the whole nation of the Brytains through the co|uetous dealing of the procuratour Catus being riſen in armes to recouer theyr ancient liberties.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Corbreide being highly diſpleaſed towardes EEBO page image 44 the Romains for ye euil intreating of his Siſter, determined either to ſee hyr ſatiſfied by woorthie recompence, or els to be reuenged on them that had miſuſed hyr. And hereof gaue ſignification vnto Catus the procuratour that was as then returned into Brytaine with a power of men of warre.

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